Health & Fitness
Family Friends and Food Safety
Don't gamble at the dinner table. Every good meal should start with food safety.
Thanksgiving is a time for friends, family, and food! While preparing this year’s Thanksgiving feast, make sure to leave food poisoning off the menu. Whether you’re planning on hosting a house full of friends and family or having a small intimate celebration, it is important to remember that dangers lurk in the kitchen and home that can spoil the holiday.
“Forgetting about food safety is a recipe for disaster,” says Bruce Ruck, Pharm.D., Managing Director of the NJ Poison Control Center at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School’s Department of Emergency Medicine. Getting sick from eating contaminated food is quite common; contamination can occur at any point during the food production chain — from production to preparation (restaurant or home). Read more bit.ly/2Tv4S0X
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